Prenatal Environmental Exposures, Epigenetics, and Health with Dr Frederica PereraSeptember 9, 2011Dr. Frederica Perera touches on how the environment around us can make a big impact very early in life and stick with us for a long time. This short take was shot during a break at Keystone Symposia’s meeting on Environmental Epigenomics and Disease Susceptibility held in March 2011 in Asheville, North Carolina. Environmental Exposures […]
Human Transgenerational Responses with Dr Marcus PembreySeptember 9, 2011Dr. Marcus Pembrey provides a nice background on his experiences with imprinting and how it might provide a means for transgenerational adaptation. This short take was shot during a break at Keystone Symposia’s meeting on Environmental Epigenomics and Disease Susceptibility held in March 2011 in Asheville, North Carolina. Interview Transcript I’m a chemical geneticist, […]
Imprinted Genes and Fetal Growth with Dr Gudrun MooreSeptember 8, 2011Dr. Gudrun Moore discusses her studies of key genes involved with fetal growth and their regulation. This short take was shot during a break at Keystone Symposia’s meeting on Environmental Epigenomics and Disease Susceptibility held in March 2011 in Asheville, North Carolina. Imprinted Genes and Fetal Growth As I am fundamentally interested in looking […]
Early-Life Stress, Epigenetics, and Disease with Dr Patrick McGowanSeptember 8, 2011Dr. Patrick McGowan discusses how stresses early in life can potentially impact epigenetic mechanisms and disease susceptibility. This short take was shot during a break at Keystone Symposia’s meeting on Environmental Epigenomics and Disease Susceptibility held in March 2011 in Asheville, North Carolina. Environmental Influences on Developmental Programming Well epigenetics is really central to the […]
Biocomputers Use miRNA Profiles to ID and Kill Cancer CellsSeptember 7, 2011Computers for your cells? Sounds like the plot to a Star Trek episode, but researchers report that they’ve developed a biocomputer that can figure out if a cell is cancerous and destroy it by triggering apoptosis —all by detecting miRNA levels, potentially leading to much more targeted cancer therapies than what’s available now. The researchers […]
NCBI NIH Tools for Surfing the EpigenomeAugust 31, 2011Massive epigenome mapping projects have led to a deluge of data that eager epigeneticists can’t wait dive into, but it’s not quite that simple. It’s no easy feat to learn about the best places to download, view or manipulate epigenomic data, much less understand the tidal wave of information once you’ve found it. It’s all […]
EpiGenie Reviews Epigenetics: A Reference ManualAugust 31, 2011Epigenetics is such a young and expanding field that it’s tough to find a lot of good reference material out there. And what you can find is usually scattered all across any number of places on the World Wide Web. That’s why we are so stoked to see the new epigenetics text, Epigenetics: A Reference […]
SNPs Display their Methyl MagnetismAugust 25, 2011Some people believe that the right sports car, dog, or teeth whitener will turn them into an irresistible magnet for the opposite sex. While impressive epigenetics knowledge may not help you attract Mr./Ms. Right, two recent papers strengthen the case that single-nucleotide variants can act as powerful magnets for DNA methylation. In the first paper […]
Quick Interviews from Keystone Symposia’s Meeting on Environmental Epigenomics and Disease SusceptibilityAugust 25, 2011We set out to provide a few nice interviews with some of the outstanding cast of researchers that presented at Keystone Symposia’s meeting on Environmental Epigenomics and Disease Susceptibility last spring, but one thing led to another, and well…here they are now. Apologies for the delay, but we think you’ll agree it was worth the […]
A New Spin on RNA PurificationAugust 18, 2011RNA isolation. It doesn’t get that much hype, but it should considering it’s the first, and perhaps most critical, step in virtually every RNA analysis workflow out there. Today’s favorite techniques are increasingly accurate and precise and some applications, like next-gen sequencing, will have you swimming in data analysis for weeks. That’s not such a […]